My Writing Week: March 1-7

Here's a look at last week's work.

Sunday March 1

• Wrote 90 mins, 618 words

• Spent another hour brainstorming ways to re-order Act 1 with more propulsion

Monday March 2

• Spent another hour brainstorming plot and structure

• Wrote 145 words

• Typed up all outstanding work

Tuesday March 3

• Wrote 500 words I didn't love

Wednesday March 4

• Spent most of the day at the barn waiting for my vet and stressing out. Had more than enough time to write when sitting there, but couldn't make myself do it because my head was still on yesterday's not quite right work. Finally went to coffee, cracked open the notebook, and realized that the reasons yesterday's work wasn't humming along and I was feeling all "blocked" now is that my main character simply wouldn't do what I had planned for her -- she would do what she did in the earlier version of Act 1.

Thursday March 4

• Having solved Tuesday's issue, I wrote 938 new words.

Thursday March 5

• Wrote 500+ words about another character in the novel

Saturday March 6

• Brought my notebook to my sons's baseball game but it was so windy and hot I couldn't make myself write even my measly 100 words. Sat there for FOUR HOURS, came home wiped out.

Sunday March 7

• Still exhausted from Saturday. But I read and read!